World Sight Day 2014 with ICEH & ICED!

World Sight Day 2014 with ICEH & ICED

World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment.

This year’s call to action theme is: No More Avoidable Blindness

Staff of International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) and International Centre for Evidence in Disability (ICED) as well as students from the MSc Public Health for Eye Care celebrated World Sight Day by presenting their work in research, teaching and will also offer an interactive display where guests will have the opportunity to witness what it would be like to have a visual impairment with the use of simulation spectacles.

On World Sight Day, IAPB members work together to:

Raise public awareness of blindness & vision impairment as major international public health issues

Influence Governments/Ministers of Health to participate in and designate funds for national blindness prevention programmes

Educate target audiences about blindness prevention, about VISION 2020 and to generate support for VISION 2020 programme activities

International Key Messages

Approximately 285 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness

Of these, 39 million people are blind and 246 million have moderate or severe visual impairment